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Dealer Demotte owned a statuette of the Virgin and Child which he called a 13th century Limoges enamel. He was fond of describing how Queen Isabella of Spain, one of its owners, had caused a niche to be cut under the pommel of her saddle to contain the statuette. With this tiny shrine she could jaunt while worshiping, or worship while jaunting...
...first tragedy of my life was when the man I loved and should have married was made a prisoner early in the War. Now I am fond of nobody and have no feelings?I only adore...
Telegrams of congratulations to the happy parents of Herbert Hoover Smith of Vinton, Iowa take precedence over massacres in the Balkans. The wife of the President receives a delegation of the Camp Fire Girls in the Blue room; the President waves a fond farewell to the friends from home while the Secretary of the Navy is detained in the anteroom as a suspicious character. Far away is the echo of a voice, "that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth...
Auctioneer C. W. Harrison climbed up behind his desk, rapped with his gavel. "We regret that His Royal Highness has had to relinquish the sport of which he was so fond," he began, "but we admire his patriotic action at a time when additional duties devolve upon him through the king's illness-it goes to the heart...
Boyd Senter, famous something recording artist, plays soprano sax and clarinet with liberal variation and the tone you seldom hear. The entire program is fond of that hilarious device--the kick in the pants. We counted a round half dozen, taking in the two movies and the stage show, and there were lots of times when we might have missed them...